History Music / PhilCollins

He is also the father of actress Lily Collins whose credits include ''TheBlindSide'', ''Film/MirrorMirror'', and ''MortalInstruments''.

* GenreRoulette: ''Face Value'' includes: the famous title track, a love ballad with Brazilian percussion ("This Must Be Love"), a swinging, disco-influenced rearrangement of "Behind the Lines", an acoustic {{Blues}} song ("The Roof Is Leaking"), two {{Instrumentals}} ("Droned", "Hand in Hand"), an R&B-influenced pop song ("I Missed Again"), a stripped-down piano and strings ballad ("You Know What I Mean"), a {{Funk}}-influenced song ("Thunder and Lightning"), an upbeat, [[Music/PaulMcCartney McCartney-esque]] pop song ("I'm Not Moving"), a full-band, orchestrated BreakupSong ("If Leaving Me Is Easy") and a cover of [[Music/TheBeatles "Tomorrow Never Knows"]].

* {{Instrumentals}}: "Droned" and "Hand in Hand" on ''Face Value'', and "The West Side" on ''Hello, I Must Be Going!''. None are "proper" instrumentals, technically: "Droned" includes vocal percussion from violinist L. Shankar, "Hand in Hand" has a children's choir chanting along with the main melody, and "The West Side" features {{Scatting}} by Phil.

* NewSoundAlbum: ''No Jacket Required'' largely jettisoned the remaining ProgressiveRock elements from the previous two albums such as instrumental tracks and creepy DarkerAndEdgier songwriting and lyrics, and focused on R&B-influenced mainstream pop-rock.

* {{Instrumentals}}: "Droned" and "Hand in Hand" on ''Face Value'', and "The West Side" on ''Hello, I Must Be Going!''. "Hand in Hand" and "The West Side" feature {{Scatting}} vocals from a children's choir and Phil, respectively.

* NewSoundAlbum: ''No Jacket Required'' largely jettisoned the remaining ProgressiveRock elements from the previous two albums such as instrumental tracks, and focused on R&B-influenced mainstream pop-rock.

** "Against All Odds" is not titled "Take a Look at Me Now"

He is also the father of actress Lily Collins whose credits include ''TheBlindSide'', ''Film/MirrorMirror'', and MortalInstruments.

He is also the father of actress Lily Collins whose credits include ''TheBlindSide'' and ''Film/MirrorMirror''.

* FormerChildStar: Averted. He was a somewhat well-known child actor and played TheArtfulDodger in a West End production of ''Theatre/{{Oliver}}''. He also had teeny tiny blink-and-you'll-miss-him roles in ChittyChittyBangBang and AHardDaysNight, but he became much more popular in his adult years.

* BlackSheepHit: "In the Air Tonight", his first hit from back in 1981. Considering a frequent criticism of him is that his songs are [[TastesLikeDiabetes saccharine]] {{Narm}}y synth-heavy mopefests, this one gains lots of points for being [[DarkerAndEdgier creepy]], ominous, and having that awesome air-drumming-inducing breakdown. {{Cracked}} themselves cited it as "Collins' sole flirtation with being awesome".

* CoverVersion: ''Face Value'' ends with a cover of "[[TheBeatles Tomorrow Never Knows]]".

* NoodleIncident: "In the Air Tonight" again. Phil never actually says what he saw the other guy do.
** Nor does [[AmbiguousGender he ever specify that the person in question was a guy]].
** Although there is an urban legend that this song is about Phil Collins witnessing a murder by drowning, WordOfGod states that the lyrics don't have any real meaning; the angry and helpless tone of the song was inspired by a painful divorce that Phil was going through at the time he wrote it.

* BlueEyes

* ObsessionSong: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLVrB3FXbPA Misunderstanding]]" (written by Collins) from the Music/{{Genesis}} album ''Duke'' is arguably about a StalkerWithACrush.

** The only obsession in Misunderstanding is the one with Collins trying to sound like the BeachBoys.

** His 1996 album ''DanceIntoTheLight'' contains a song called "Lorenzo." As the title and lyrics imply, the song is about the boy from the real life-inspired film ''LorenzosOil''. Its lyrics were a poem written by Lorenzo's mother, and Phil asked if he could set her verses to music.

* RefrainFromAssuming: "Something Happened on the Way to Heaven" is ''not'' called "Please Believe in Me."

He is also the father of actress Lily Collins whose credits include ''TheBlindSide'' and ''MirrorMirror''.

** Actually, a lot of his songs from his first two albums are like that.

He is also the father of actress Lily Collins whose credits include TheBlindSide and MirrorMirror

Collins has also had a tremendously successful solo career, selling 33 million records in the US alone with one diamond album (''No Jacket Required'') there. His biggest hits include "In the Air Tonight," "Sussudio," "One More Night," and "Another Day in Paradise." He [[HeAlsoDid also]] [[PopStarComposer composed]] the songs for the [[DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney]] animated films ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'' and ''BrotherBear'', as well as three for ''[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Buster Buster]]'', in which he also starred.

Collins has also had a tremendously successful solo career, selling 33 million records in the US alone with one diamond album (''No Jacket Required'') there. His biggest hits include "In the Air Tonight," "Sussudio," "One More Night," and "Another Day in Paradise." He [[HeAlsoDid also]] [[PopStarComposer composed]] the songs for the [[DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney]] animated films ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'' and ''BrotherBear'', as well as three for ''{{Buster}}'', in which he also starred.

** He did some acting in the long break between ''ButSeriously'' and ''BothSides'': he starred in a little-known Australian movie called ''{{Frauds}}'' alongside a very young Hugo Weaving (he took the role that these days would be reserved for Weaving!) and had a cameo as a police inspector in ''{{Hook}}''.

* FormerChildStar: Averted. He was a somewhat well-known child actor and played TheArtfulDodger in a West End production of ''[[OliverTwist Oliver!]]''. He also had teeny tiny blink-and-you'll-miss-him roles in ChittyChittyBangBang and AHardDaysNight, but he became much more popular in his adult years.

[[{{Cracked}} Being Phil Collins may be worse than being homeless, alone, dead, or ass-worm mouthed.]]

* UglyGuyHotWife: Collins and second wife Jill Tavelman and third wife Orianne Cevey.